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NCTE 2022

• Poetry session resources 2021 
• On the Corner of Candor and Hope 2022

Book Love Workshop Handouts

• Independent Reading Balance
• Book Clubs
• Reading Like Writers Collecting Beautiful Words from books
• Study Guide or WE ARE NOT FROM HERE by Jenny Torres Sanchez (written by Julia Torres)
• Book Love Workshop
• 41st Day of Reading in Chicago
• Elements of a Reading Workshop to increase Stamina, Fluency, & Joy
• Focus on Craft and Structure of Texts
• Conferring Workshop
• Book Love/Write Beside Them workshop
• Letter to Parents about reading and writing
• 180 Days Parent Letter about Independent Reading
• 7 thinking strategies good readers use to unlock meaning
• Book Recommendations from Book Love workshop
• Reading Survey
• Romeo and Juliet Companion Books List
• July Book Love Handouts
• UNH Book Clubs 2017

Write Beside Them Workshop Handouts

• A 2020 Vision: Teaching Focused on the Future "Bundles of Potential" by Tom Romano
• Digital Storytelling Competencies
• 2-sentence horror stories
• Currently Reading List for Notebooks
• NCTE 2017 Roundtables
• Winnipeg ASCD handouts

• Poetry Writing 

• Argument Writing Handouts
• Conditions for Leading Writers
• WBT: read & write beside them, anchor workshop teaching with daily writing, revising, & modeling with students
• Stories as Evidence to Support Ideas: read & write beside them, anchor workshop teaching with daily writing, revising, & modeling with students
• Reading Like a Writer from Katie Wood Ray’s Wondrous Words, 1999
• Writing Narrative Qualities
• Writing Argument Qualities
• Storyboarding Our Thinking: Creating Flexible Writers
• Eleven Elements of Effective Adolescent Writing Instruction
• Writing Survey
• July Write Beside Them handouts
• On Becoming an American Writer
• Equity in Motiona Series: Do Classroom Assignments Reflect Today's Rigorous Standards?

Planning Handouts

• Unit template guiding questions for narrative, expository, argument
• Informational/explanatory writing unit Grades 5-6
• Elements of a Reading Workshop to increase Stamina, Fluency, & Joy (single page)
• I Can Statements for Research Writing
• Plymouth State University Freshmen Composition Courses 2018

Content Area Writing Handouts

• Content Area Literacy Strategies
• Content Area Writing Handouts
• Picturing the Past 2000-2009

• Soldiers in Iraq (chart)